Features added to Windows Essentials include video stabilization, better sound editing, and improved titling.

In addition, a new photo-collage feature has been added to Windows Essentials .

Video stabilization is a welcome addition to Microsoft's movie app. Sometimes, you want your video to have some shake to give it the immediacy and verité of a handheld camera shot. Most of the time, though, shake is just distracting and amateurish.

This release of Movie Maker takes advantage of new technology in Windows 8 to make even the most wobbly video watchable without giving your audience vertigo.